Chapter 406 [(*^▽^*)]
Xue Rui took a deep breath. He looked at the dilapidated building with a sense of loss. Except for the top two floors, every floor of the building was messy and broken.
Huajiao suddenly stood up. "There's still an hour and a half until dawn! How about we go find some other ordinary ghosts? Don't these ghosts get stronger the more people they eat?"
Wang Fu said, "In that case, the three of us will be leaving now. We only got this many points, so we need to go and earn some more."
Xue Rui waved his hand, "We'll cooperate again later!"
Wang Fu laughed heartily, "No problem, no problem. I trust you completely. You're really great, strong, and your teammates are all fantastic. I like you!"
The three of them left quickly, leaving only the five of them on the first floor.
Zhou Feng walked up to him and asked, "Captain, what do you think of this Wang Fu..."
Xue Rui said, "I've met this Wang Fu before, he should know me too."
Zhou Feng immediately thought of Xue Rui's identity in the real world, "Is he the young master of some company?"
Xue Rui nodded, "Indeed, since he's pretending not to know me, I won't expose him. I'll have a good talk with him when we get back, since the Management Bureau won't let these players run wild outside."
All players must leave their information with the official authorities and undergo regular checks. Anyone who dares to act recklessly outside will face the same fate as those currently imprisoned in the special prison.
Xue Rui looked up and saw that the building was in a bad state. Zhou Feng carefully observed the situation and sighed deeply. "Captain, should we go find other ghosts?"
Xue Rui shook his head. "Everyone should take advantage of the remaining time to rest. We have to go back to work after six o'clock. I don't think daytime is specifically for players to rest."
Zhou Feng: "Could it be... that there's some hidden danger even during the day?"
Xue Rui said, "I don't know, but we can keep an eye out for it. This floor is a good place. Everyone, find a place to sleep. I'll destroy this body first."
Huajiao said nonchalantly, "I just checked the corpse of this elite monster. It has been completely destroyed by the poison, and the poison is still there. No ghost would want to be poisoned to death."
Xue Rui said, "In that case, let's wait here until six o'clock and watch the corpse of this elite monster dissipate with our own eyes."
Sichuan peppercorns: "Agreed! Agreed!"
To destroy the corpse, they would need to consume points and items, especially the corpse of this elite monster. While the flesh inside was indeed tainted by poison, the outer skin and the bones inside were still difficult to remove. To completely eliminate it, the points consumed would certainly be a considerable amount.
The thought that the points they worked so hard to earn would be wasted here makes me very unhappy!
The place where the five people rested was not far from the corpse. If it were far away, the ghost might secretly steal the corpse, and then all their efforts would have been in vain.
Xue Rui checked the time. "There's about an hour left. Everyone, hurry up and get some rest!"
Maybe he's mistaken, but it's always good to be cautious.
Seeing these scenes, Lin Leyou was slightly moved. As expected of Xue Rui, he had become so strong without her knowledge.
It will be the fourth day when it's six o'clock, and he's still stuck on the top floor and can't go down.
In fact, Lin Leyou himself was also looking forward to seeing if he could appear downstairs before the building collapsed. He really wanted to catch up with Xue Rui.
He was fiddling with his phone in the Endless World, the screen showing his chat interface with Xue Rui, but he hadn't sent any messages yet.
It seems that Xue Rui has done this many times before, running dungeons alone without letting others know, and he's probably doing it again now.
However... now all players can only open a dungeon once a day, and at least once a month. Otherwise, if a dungeon is forced to open, players will be randomly matched with dungeons that are too difficult.
All players will abide by this rule.
Lin Leyou looked at Xue Rui on the monitor. Although he didn't look like Xue Rui at all, he recognized the look in his eyes.
Wait a minute! Lin Leyou suddenly realized something. Players can only open one dungeon per day, so does that mean he, as a resident, can only accept one quest per day?
"System, will residents of the Endless World only be able to accept one mission per day from now on?"
System notification: Good.
Lin Leyou took a deep breath. Okay, okay, one a day is fine. Constantly opening dungeons and taking on quests is inhumane.
Those who want to farm points will naturally not miss the daily dungeons and quests. Those who don't want to enter dungeons only need to open them once a month. For the residents of the Endless World, quests are not mandatory.
However, while residents seem to have more freedom, there are also drawbacks. For example, just like players, residents will be eliminated if their score is less than zero.
Lin Leyou put his phone back into his backpack. "The time spent inside the dungeon doesn't count. I can leave whenever I want, which makes things much more convenient for me."
“When I participated in dungeons before, there was always some time passing outside of the dungeon, sometimes a few hours, sometimes half a day... or even a whole day.”
Lin Leyou's longest encounter was a day, but fortunately, there were no longer any.
His gaze fell on Xue Rui's squinting, dozing face. "Sigh...it doesn't look like her at all! She looked better the way she did before."
Time passed slowly, and six o'clock soon arrived.
The entire building gradually came back to life from top to bottom. All the broken windows and other debris were slowly restored. It was as if time had reversed, and the dilapidated building was restored to its original state in just a few seconds.
Even broken appliances, tables, and chairs, and even papers and documents that had been scattered on the floor and flown out of the window, were all returned to their original places.
Apart from the ordinary NPCs and players who were eaten, everyone who survived recovered their health and their injuries were completely healed, including the players.
But... although the physical injuries have healed, the mental exhaustion will not disappear.
Xue Rui slowly got up. He looked at the open door on the first floor and the building restored to its original state. "Let's go to the staff cafeteria for lunch."
After witnessing the corpse of Elite Monster 05 gradually turn to ashes and dissipate into the air as six o'clock approached, everyone slowly got up and followed Xue Rui to take the elevator to the staff canteen.
A new notice appeared at the gate behind them, listing the people who needed to stay at the company to work overtime that day. People coming in from outside would breathe a sigh of relief if they didn't see their own names, but those who did would panic and even grab the people next to them, frantically asking what to do.
If you're going to stay, you're going to stay. What else can you do?
They either find a substitute, or they make someone drink their blood so that they can leave work at six o'clock. The person who drinks the blood will be hunted down twice as much, or someone who wasn't supposed to stay will stay in their place. Everyone knows this.
Therefore, people who work here will never eat anything given to them by others, especially those who do not need to work overtime; they all bring their own food and drinks.
After they entered the elevator, they turned around and saw ordinary NPCs crying and shouting at the door. Huajiao sighed, "It's really too tragic... They don't have any fighting power."
Fang Hong, "Why don't you help them?"
Huajiao was startled. "What nonsense are you talking about? Don't I think I'm unlucky enough? I don't care, let those who are destined to die die, I don't care."
They arrived at the staff canteen, where everything seemed to have returned to normal: people were working, eating, or slacking off.
Upon closer inspection, this company seems no different from those in the real world, with normal working hours.
When Xue Rui returned to his desk, he found that the male employee who had brought him breakfast the day before was no longer there. In his place was a stranger who seemed rather indifferent. When he noticed Xue Rui looking at him, the stranger gave him only a cold look before continuing to work.
Xue Rui slowly sat down in the chair, turned on the computer, and silently began his work for the day. The tasks assigned to the players were the simplest, and if you looked closely, the things on the players' desks... were almost the same every day. But there was one thing: a sticky note was pasted on the outside of the vertical folder on the left. The text on this sticky note was different every day, and the content was the daily work instructions.
He completes his work according to the instructions on the sticky note every day, and then rests, sleeps, eats, and even goes for walks.
Although he didn't know what it was for, he mentioned it to everyone in the chat group a few days ago. At first, no one noticed, but after some discussion, they found that there were indeed such notes, although the locations of these notes were all different.
Apart from Xue Rui, the other four did almost nothing useful during the day on the first day. They all found the sticky notes on the second day after Xue Rui reminded them, but the content on the notes was already the work for the second day. The work for the first day had already been updated.
Even now, I still don't know what bad things will happen if I don't finish the first day's work, or if nothing will happen at all. It's just that Xue Rui is overthinking things.
On the fourth day, everything was peaceful, except for a few people who were asked to stay and work overtime and who were refused when they tried to give food to others in a subtle way.
Xue Rui stood by the window of the staff canteen and looked out. It was now 5:45 pm on the fourth day, and there were only 15 minutes left until 6 pm.
There aren't too many people eating in the staff canteen right now, but there aren't too few either. Basically, all the players and some employees who have to stay to work overtime are here.
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